TO 



SIB EGBERT CHRISTISON, BART., M.D., LL.D., D.C.L. 



EMEEITUS PEOFESSOE OF MATEEIA MEDICA IN THE 

 UNIVEESITY OF EDINBUEGH. 



SIR, 



In the preparation of this work the intention which I 

 had formed from the first of dedicating it to you has always 

 been present with me, and whilst the thought has added pleasure 



to what has truly been a congenial task, it has incited me to 



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 make every effort in my power to render the book worthy of 



your acceptance. 



In offering you this tribute of admiration and regard, I 

 would express my sense of the signal benefits which, by your 

 labours as a teacher and investigator and by your personal 

 example, you have conferred upon the great University of 

 which you were so long an ornament, no less than upon the 

 whole medical profession in this country. 



ARTHUR GAMGEE. 



MANCHESTER, July 19, 1830. 



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